Tag: apache2

The haproxy charm in the charmstore https://jujucharms.com/haproxy/ is deceptively powerful. I recently had a use case which I thought it would not handle. It turns out, it does.

The details are all in the services config value. In my case, I am replacing the apache charm https://jujucharms.com/apache2/ using balancer and reverseproxy relations.

The apache charm has vhost_https_template and vhost_http_template which gets pasted in as apache httpd config. The haproxy charm services config value has service_options as yaml which works much the same.

I only changed the service_options entry with what would redirect haproxy in a frontend config.

This is where the magic of this haproxy charm happens. The haproxy charm knows which config values are for a frontend haproxy section and also for a backend haproxy section. The charm automatically puts the value in the right place.

The next thing which wasn’t obvious to me from reading the haproxy charm readme is that the Juju application related using reverseproxy relation becomes a backend section and its values will be merged from the services config.

The implication here is that there is another application, “my-app” which is also related to haproxy. This config tells haproxy to use my-app as the default application, but if the url starts with /KIBANA/, to use the kibana backend instead of the “my-app” backend. For completeness, I am including the equivalant of apache’s ProxyPassReverse and ProxyPassReverseCookiePath. These are the rspirep… Location and rspirep…Set-Cookie lines in the config respectively.